Administrative and Maintenance Tools - vb Linkchecker Bot 1.1

MaxWCoders present vB Link Checker Bot 1.1

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DESCRIPTION
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1) Checks Rapidshare.de , Rapidshare.com , Sendspace.com , Megaupload.com , Depositfiles.com and Mediafire.com links using cURL.
2) Works for post with all BBCodes.
3) Bins the post if more than specified percent of dead links are found , pms the user about it and posts in that topic
4) If all links are alive it adds specified message at the end of the post and the description.
5) If some links are live and some are dead i.e less than specified % , it makes a thread in a specified forum about it
6)Has a debug mode, to help you debug the errors.
7)Bot doesn't timeout due to MySQL timeout or PHP timeout.
8)It is a product, can be imported and settings can be changed easily.
9)Methods are accessible with keywords.

VBBot Installation How-To
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1. Upload vbbot.php to your root folder where your VB installation is
Note : If you had older version of the bot, delete vbbot.php (or the folder) and replace it by new one.

2. Goto your ACP and go to 'Plugins & Products' and then click on 'Manage Products'

3. In the top box eneter the location of the product-link_bot.xml file on your computer
and then click the 'Import' button.

4. You have just installed the VB Link Checker bot.

5. If you had older version of the bot, delete vbbot.php (or the folder) and replace it by new one.


Setting up and configuring your VB Link Checker
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1. Create a new user that will be used for your Link Checker Bot. Make sure the bot has
the appropriate permissions for where it will be posting. (ie, VIP/Private forums)

2. Create the forums you will be using for good and bad links if you have not done so already.

3. Goto vBulletin Opions and select the MaxWCoders LinkChecker Bot.

4. All the options/setting are pretty self explanatory and each option has the description
of what the setting are for and do. Refer the the bottow of this Read Me of finding the
correct IDs you will need if you are not sure where to look.

5. Once you have everything set up hit the save button at the bottom.


Security
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1. For security reasons, it is highly recommended you rename your bot to something else for instance 63454.php

Running your Link Checker Bot
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1. You can run the bot by setting up a Cron job to run at a set time so you will not have to
run it manually. This can be found in your cPannel of your server.

2. You can call it manually by running vbbot.php (ie. http://www.siteurl.com/vbbot.php)

How to find all of your needed IDs.
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How to find your forum ID:
Just goto the forum in question and the URL will look like the one below.

http://www.yourwebsite.com/forumdisplay.php?f=18 <--- The number at the end of the URL
will be the forum ID. In this example
it is 18.

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How to find your user ID
Find the user that is going to be your bot and click on the user name.
Now look at the URL in the address bar. It should look something like the one below

http://www.yourwebsite.com/member.php?u=2 <--- The number at the end of the URL will be
the user ID. In this example the user ID
is 2.

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Bot in action




Script support on

www.maxwcoders.com

Read the glossary included in the RAR and ZIPs.

Get them at

http://www.maxwcoders.com/bots/downloads/vbbot11.rar

Changelog:
1.0 - 1.1 -> Bug fixes and Product installer

Bugs:

Unfortunately due to time constraints due to exams, I am not able to find the bug fix for the PM bug. Whenever bot tries to PM a certain member with PM disabled, or something similar, it returns a big error. So far only fix for it is, disable PM for that topic and run it again. Maybe after my exams, I can have a better look. Other than that, the new version is just fine

[puertoblack2003]

Originally Posted by sarkar

It is a stable mod and works fine on a live board.

i most say props to you:up: The only thing i encountered the pms, instead of generating one pm with the list of bad links its doing it one by one whcih i now have 20 pm's ..I guess something you can fix..

[Floris]

First goto phpmyadmin and execute this queries:

ALTER TABLE `vb_thread` ADD `time_check` INT( 10 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0' AFTER `taglist` ;
ALTER TABLE `vb_thread` ADD `ignore_check` TINYINT( 1 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0' AFTER `time_check` ;

Where vb_ is the forum table prefix.

The vB product can run these queries, and takes table prefix into account.

[Floris]

Originally Posted by sarkar

It was supposed to be a private hack, but got leaked somehow... Anyway i am also an admin on MaxWCoders to check

Somehow?

The only way I can see this being leaked is via another admin on that site or one of the developers (hired(?)) sharing it with friends. Time to revisit the admin list and rethink who you hire as a developer., I guess.

[puertoblack2003]

also found another issue in the pm when showing the bad links to the post the url to the post is broken for example : http://your_site.com82719/ thats how is showing in pm

[sarkar]

About the PM thing i cant do anything you will have to survive it
And the URL in PM thing works fine...
$showurl = 'http://yourdomain.com/forum/showthread.php?t='; //Your URL url needs to be in this format
the variable $showurl needs to be in this format
There is a bug fix please update everyone..

[puertoblack2003]

Originally Posted by sarkar

About the PM thing i cant do anything you will have to survive it
And the URL in PM thing works fine...
$showurl = 'http://yourdomain.com/forum/showthread.php?t='; //Your URL url needs to be in this format
the variable $showurl needs to be in this format
There is a bug fix please update everyone..

ok that worked...:up: dont know what happened! so far so good

[Hornstar]

Thanks, this is quite a good release as it does come in handy when you have many RS links on your site. Thanks.

[puertoblack2003]

few more things! sorry to be a pain but I'm helping you,This have potential.

1- the forum id for the trash post, i put the forum id # now everything goes to the post that i designated to.But if you in forum home, when i click on the post that was placed in the trash, it does not take me to theat post it takes me to another post other then the trash post.

2- report forum id, Id# chosen, but nothing is not going to that post at all..

pm is ok

-pb

[sarkar]

Originally Posted by Floris

Somehow?

The only way I can see this being leaked is via another admin on that site or one of the developers (hired(?)) sharing it with friends. Time to revisit the admin list and rethink who you hire as a developer., I guess.

Actually earlier it was a paid modification. So guy bought it and spread it all over. So we decided why does that guy get credit? We then released, both the versions i.e. vBulletin and IPB bots on our site and are working on SMF and MyBB.

That is how the bot got leaked.

[rapidphim]

can you please let me know how many query this hack used? thanks.